The etiolation of celery. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
His etiolation signaled years in prison. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The etiolation of the critical tradition. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : to etiolate celery. From Dictionary.com.
It seems necessary to draw a distinction between this state and ordinary blanching or etiolation. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The last, in its wild state, is said to be pernicious, but etiolation changes the products and renders them harmless. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891] Reference
As many examples in "Starburst" were printed later, I'm guessing that etiolation has been high except in the case of dye-transfer prints. From Wordnik.com. [When Color Burst Through] Reference
He indicated that a favorable combination of etiolation, moisture, rooting medium, and a root-inducing chemical was desirable for successful rooting. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
Meanwhile Mr. Dunne's treatment of the book is in about every instance on the order of his treatment of my exchange with the Boston Globe: exercises in etiolation. From Wordnik.com. ['Overdrive': An Exchange] Reference
Sunlight, moreover, has not only this action upon the animal kingdom, but also upon the vegetable world as well Plants, like celery, which are subjected to blanching, become whitened under the process of etiolation. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
I suspect the following case lineages are in jeopardy of either extinction or etiolation. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
Attention was drawn to the fact that by virtue of the laws which Darwin himself had discovered isolation leads to etiolation. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
The dullness of the scholastic atmosphere the grey, intolerant mediocrity that is the natural or assumed quality of every upper-class schoolmaster, is the true cause of the spiritual etiolation of "Kappa's" young friend. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference
It has also been defined polemically as ` not the accent of a class, but the accent of the class-conscious, the dialect of an effete social clique, half aware of its own etiolation, capitalizing linguistic affectations to convert them to caste-marks. '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4] Reference
"It appears, therefore, that it is by the action of light that the vital properties of vegetables are supported, as it is by the action of oxygen that those of animals are preserved; consequently, etiolation is to the former what asphyxia is to the latter.". From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
I suspect the following case lineages are in jeopardy of either extinction or etiolation: www). From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
By the etiolation of the shade. From Wordnik.com. [A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry] Reference
ALBINISM, axolotl affected by, 182; difference between etiolation and, 182, 184. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference
Ait-Ali, T.; Frances, S.; Weller, J.L.; Reid, J.B.; Kendrick, R.E.; Kamiya, Y.: Regulation of gibberellin 20-oxidase and gibberellin 3b-hydroxylase tran - script accumulation during de-etiolation of pea seedlings. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
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